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    Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat...
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    university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent...
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    concept of the research university. The Humboldtian model goes back to Wilhelm von Humboldt, who in the time of the Prussian reforms relied on a growing, educated...
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    the linguist and later Prussian statesman Wilhelm von Humboldt, brother of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Their marriage was an unconventional one...
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  • was first expressed explicitly by 19th-century thinkers such as Wilhelm von Humboldt and Johann Gottfried Herder, who considered language as the expression...
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    Orbiter 4). The crater was named after German philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt by the IAU. Humboldt is one of the largest craters of Upper (Late) Imbrian...
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    first Hawaiian in Prussia, Germany. According to the records of Wilhelm von Humboldt, he stated Teoni as his father's name and Bete as his mother's. He...
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  • art historian Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), Prussian minister, linguist and philosopher Alexander von Humboldt (disambiguation) Humboldt (disambiguation)...
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    Schloss Tegel (category Alexander von Humboldt)
    Humboldt-Schloss is a country house in Tegel, part of the Reinickendorf district of the German capital Berlin. The brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von...
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    the mother of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, born from the union with Alexander Georg von Humboldt, her second husband. Von Humboldt came from a family...
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    Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively...
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    The Wilhelm von Humboldt Memorial to the left of the Humboldt University main building on Unter den Linden avenue in Berlin's Mitte district commemorates...
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  • Traité d'économie politique (Treatise on Political Economy), 1803. Wilhelm von Humboldt (Germany, 1767–1835) Some literature: Ideen zu einem Versuch, die...
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  • Humboldt may refer to: Alexander von Humboldt, German natural scientist, brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist, philosopher...
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    rolls.  On November 17, 1823, the scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt wrote from Weimar, to his wife Caroline von Humboldt and others, about his and Goethe's diet:...
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    2000. He was also bestowed with the Wilhelm-von-Humboldt-Foundation Award presented in a public ceremony at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, on...
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    Bildungsbürgertum never exceeded more than about one percent of the population. Wilhelm von Humboldt shaped the Bildungsbürgertum's ideal of education as a process of...
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    neurologist Wilhelm Hetling (1740–1798), Baltic-German politician and the first mayor of Reval (modern-day Tallinn) Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835),...
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    Gabriele von Bülow (28 May 1802 – 16 April 1887) was a German noblewoman. The third daughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Caroline von Dacheröden, she was...
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    Shakespeare. Schlegel met with Caroline Schelling and Wilhelm von Humboldt. In 1790 his brother Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel came to Göttingen. Both were...
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    federalism Wilhelm von Humboldt (1794–1803), son of the German diplomat and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt Gustav (Frederico Constantiono) von Humboldt (1806-1807)...
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  • Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen) is a philosophical treatise by Wilhelm von Humboldt, which is a major work of the German Enlightenment. Though written...
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    underlying Humboldtian educational ideal of brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt was about much more than primary education; it strived for academic...
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    Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Stuart Mill, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Franz Boas, and Walter Rauschenbusch among others...
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    The German university — the Humboldtian model — established by Wilhelm von Humboldt was based upon Friedrich Schleiermacher's liberal ideas about the...
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    early 19th-century Prussia in Germany, where Wilhelm von Humboldt championed his vision of Einheit von Lehre und Forschung (the unity of teaching and...
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  • Wilhelm von Humboldt, of whom Bloomfield asserts: This study received its foundation at the hands of the Prussian statesman and scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈjoːzɛf ˈʃɛlɪŋ]; 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854), later (after 1812) von Schelling, was...
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    islands in the Pacific Ocean. In the 19th century, researchers (e.g. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Herman van der Tuuk) started to apply the comparative method to...
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